Beacon at Alexandria (The Hera Series) - Softcover

Bradshaw, Gillian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1569470103 ISBN 13: 9781569470107

Publisher: Soho Press, 2003

Synopsis

In the Fourth Century A.D., independent and determined young Charis is forbidden to become a doctor because she is a woman. Disguising herself as a eunuch she flees Ephesus for Alexandria, then the center of learning. There she apprentices to a Jewish doctor but eventually becomes drawn into Church politics and is forced once again to flee. She serves as an army doctor at a Roman outpost in Thrace until, kidnapped by barbarian Visigoths, she finds her destiny to heal and also to be a woman and a wife.

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From Library Journal:

When Charis learns that her father has betrothed her to the hated Roman governor Festinus, she enlists the aid of her brother and flees to Alexandria. There, disguised as a eunuch, she begins to study Hippocratic medicine under the tutelage of a patient Jewish physician. The young woman excels as a healer and her fame spreads. Political intrigues force her to frontier outposts of the Roman Empire where she practices as an army doctor. She succeeds in maintaining her disguise until she is captured and held prisoner by the Goths during their uprising against the Romans. Bradshaw has superbly re-created the political, social, and intellectual climate of the 4th century A.D. and the attitudes towards woman and medicine in this excellent work for most public libraries. Joan Hinkemeyer, Englewood P.L., Col.
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From Publishers Weekly:

Two entries in Soho's Hera series of historical fiction ``by and about women'' set, respectively, in 12th century France and Republican Rome.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Soho Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1569470103
• ISBN 13: 9781569470107
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 376